March 16, 2006

belt up

I had a one-day trip to London today. On the way back, the coach driver reminded us that the passengers in the first four rows behind him must wear the seat belts. “Please belt up,” the driver said. I think this expression is more concise than “please wear your seat belts”. Interestingly, when I looked up this phrase in several dictionaries, the only listed definition I found is: “shut up” (see [m-w] and [dict]). The definition is incomplete in the dictionaries.